// The libMesh Finite Element Library.
// Copyright (C) 2002-2021 Benjamin S. Kirk, John W. Peterson, Roy H. Stogner

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#ifndef LIBMESH_MESH_SERIALIZER_H
#define LIBMESH_MESH_SERIALIZER_H

// Local includes

// C++ includes


namespace libMesh
{
// Forward declarations
class MeshBase;

/**
 * Temporarily serialize a DistributedMesh for output; a distributed
 * mesh is allgathered by the MeshSerializer constructor if
 * need_serial is true, then remote elements are deleted again by the
 * destructor.
 *
 * \author Roy Stogner
 * \date 2011
 * \brief Temporarily serializes a DistributedMesh for output.
 */
class MeshSerializer
{
public:
  MeshSerializer(MeshBase & mesh, bool need_serial = true, bool serial_only_needed_on_proc_0 = false);

  ~MeshSerializer();

private:
  MeshBase & _mesh;
  bool reparallelize;
};

} // namespace libMesh

#endif // LIBMESH_MESH_SERIALIZER_H
